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What does short-period mean?

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  1. (astronomy) Having an orbital period of less than 200 years, especially said of comets
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If it were so, then the short-period oscillations should be confined to only one frequency.
Comets with small semimajor axes never leave the planetary part of the solar system, and constitute the kingdom of short-period comets.

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